... hazards describing risk perceptions of more than 40 000 individuals (familiarity as vertical dimension and possibility of control as horizontal dimension), pesticides lie in the upper right quadrant of the space reflecting that the respondents of the study characterised pesticides as poorly known or understood, delayed in effect, relatively new, uncontrollable, evoking dread, catastrophic, fatal, inequitable and posing ... the European Commission. The suggested limit value would have ended the fishing industry from Baltic Sea, as the dioxin levels of Baltic herring were way too high. Fin...

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... law. Alongside the aforementioned direct impacts of the European citizens, the allegiance to interest groups and political parties provides the resources required by intermediary organisations to have an effect at a European level. In reality however, it is these very institutions and their remote, elite-driven and unaccountable nature, which proves to be at the heart of the democratic deficit. The European Commission can be viewed as the manifestation of ... euro-supranationalism, with responsibilities ranging from drafting and arbitrating in the legislative process to managing the EU ...

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